I like this extension. I was happy it was able to handle MacOSX file system.

It would be even more handy if you could save selected section of the page to file. I see you can save an image or a link. I also know this extension is able to copy selection as html. I'd love to see the ability to select text and images on the page and then choose "Save to file >" menu and save that region of the page as an html file (or even an option to save as text).

p.s. odd behavior I noticed was that when you select text in the page the "Save Page to" menu does not show up.

About the availability of Save File to's menu items. "Save Page to" should be available whenever the normal Firefox "Save Page As..." is available (because behind the scene Save File to relies partially on the same code). So as "Save Page as..." is not available when you have text selected, there's no "Save Page to" either. The same goes with "Save Link to" and "Save Image to".

Am I going to implement that feature. Probably not. I have tried to keep the extension simple and limit the scope to strictly handle actual files.

Would it be possible for you to add an option to disable sub-folders? For example, When I "Save File To...", then move to Desktop, I want to be able to click "Desktop" to save it there, with no sub-menu for "Save Here". It's kind of an unnecessary step for me because I add the folders I want to it.

Well, I guess I could advertise the "competition" as a public service.

@StormFXYou haven't got back to me on my question, but if you want to get rid of sub-folders altogether, check out FavLoc

@dingalingSo, basically you want a dynamic root folder. For example, a root folder entry named like "My downloads per host" with path "c:\downloads\%host%". You mean something like that? In that example case, that folder probably wouldn't exist most of the time and there wouldn't be any sub-folders either naturally, so I'm sure what the use would be because the cascading sub-folder thingy is what this extension is mostly about. But I'll think about it.

In general though, this will probably fall into the known-"problem"-that-I-can't-really-do-nothing-about category. It's kind of impossible for the extension to know what the filename should be if not the default. It's the server's job to tell the right filename to the client. I could try to query the content type and then set the file extension correctly so you would have download.php.txt for example, but that's kind of half-assed solution because if the server doesn't return the filename it probably won't return the content type properly either. Complain to the webmaster of the host and tell him to fix his program.

Basically, what I'm looking for is a slogger replacement. First, because it seems abandoned. Secondly, because the latter versions were overloaded with useless features, trying to do too many things at once.

Your plugin could be a good replacement for my needs. Although I'm not so convinced that rebuilding the filesystem under the popup menu without any depth limit is such a good idea but the heck with it. The main problem with this approach is though that I often want to save a file to a folder like .../www.example.com/2008/. If I haven't saved a file to that folder before and it doesn't exist, your plugin doesn't provide any means to create that folder. I have to switch to the file browser, create the folder, switch back to FF ...

In that example case, that folder probably wouldn't exist most of the time and there wouldn't be any sub-folders either naturally

There won't be any macro functionality in Save File to. I want to keep the extension simple and free of more UI clutter than it already has. Macros are more of a power user function. There are other extensions that already have them.

And yes, there is no simple way to create a new folder in the extension either. At the beginning I thought whether I should add "Create Folder Here" menuitems but decided against them because it would clutter the UI and I didn't think creating a folder would be that frequent thing to do, so one might as well use "Save Xxx As.." and save dialog to the create folder.

And about that "rebuilding the filesystem under the popup menu without any depth limit". The popups are created dynamically one folder at a time. That is, it doesn't recurse to sub-folders until they are opened. So it's not a performance issue if that's what you are worried about.

There is new release 1.1b1 that should fix the problem that grumm3t reported plus some other minor things (ChangeLog). It is a beta release, because the downloading code went through a major rewrite and I want to make sure that it works in the Real World before I make it 1.1.

So I would appreciate if You would test it and report back if you have problems. Or if you test it and don't find any problems, let me know also so I know that people have tried it. But please send those "seems to work" messages via pm, so this topic won't get cluttered. I have made a simple test page that shows that it works in trivial cases (no need to report that those work).

1.1b1 is available here. If 1.1b1 seems to work fine, 1.1 will be released in early August. Though it might still take some time before it shows up in AMO because of the long review queue there.

Hi ake79, great addon.First of all, I'll quote a suggestion that is on the download page: "it would be better for me if the recent folders were on top, so i wouldn t rush the pointer over the big slow-opening directories before they open"

Second, I'd like to translate this addon to es-ES and es-AR. But I don't know how to send you the translated files and which ones to translate.I translated this locale/en-US folder's files:folder.dtdfolder.propertiesoptions.dtdsavefileto.dtdsavefileto.properties Are there more files to translate?